Putting them into this forum is a pretty good idea. Another site I know, I think it has a limit on the length of forum posts. There is a board called "Story Ideas," but one is encouraged to keep samples to three paragraphs or less.
One guy dumped all of his unfinished stories into one big essay and published it, not in the forum, but in the Novels and Novellas section. It's six pages long, which must be about 35,000 words. He got away with it.
I'm sure most of us have had infatuations like the one depicted in the movie. However, they rarely turn out the way it did for Lloyd Dobler. Looking back now, I wonder why I spent ten months obsessed with a girl who wasn't interested in me when there were four-hundred others in my school who could have yielded better prospects.
In 1982 I saw Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl at the Fortway (or Fartway) theater in Brooklyn.
The Fortway had tough and unforgiving audiences. I think my wife and I were the only ones laughing at it; everyone else seemed confused by the whole thing.
That was especially true of the filmed intermission showing the Philosophy Soccer match between the Germans and the Greeks. They had no idea what the hell was going on.
It's her version of Downtown Train. Patty herself is attractive but I don't mean her.
I am referring to one of the dark-haired "Brooklyn Girl" extras in the subway car. She's the one with the most face time, however brief.
Near the beginning, she's blowing bubble gum and a guy comes along and bursts the bubble. A little later she is leaning to her left to say something to her friend. She's wearing some kind of schoolgirl outfit with a tie and ankle socks.
She's not "cute" in the conventional sense. She's got a strong New York face with a prominent nose. I just find her incredibly sexy.
Doesn't Alex Borstein in the show have a Valerie Solanas thing going? At least by her look, one might think she really is supposed to be Solanas except that she wasn't in New York during that period.
I don't know, try them all - but not necessarily at the same time. I often have a more than one story in the pipeline.
Someone on another site said that you have to write to please yourself first, then the readers. Don't try to pander to them. If it's good, they'll find you. And if you like it and they don't - that's okay too.
I've found that most readers on this site are pretty generous with their voting and comments.
I'm also on another, bigger site where there is some harsh criticism. But that's not so bad; sometimes I learn from critics although I may not recognize it right away. Sometimes it's the subject matter, not the quality of the writing, that bugs them.
And if the readers do like it a lot, then you know know you have something good going. You've won over some skeptical strangers.
Just be aware that no one but you can read it until it's been verified and posted.
If you want feedback, that only option I can think of is to send the file (possibly in Word) to people you know.
I'm not really on full lockdown. I live in a New York City borough and travel around, often by bus, to go food shopping and so forth.
I've been into Manhattan once to look around and take photos. It's really moribund there; the other boroughs have more activity.
My daughter lives down there and she advised me not to go, so I didn't tell her. I'd like to visit her if I could.
i guess there is a certain amount of risk I'm taking which I have to take into account.
You can ask a friend or relative who you trust. I never do that but some people probably do.
I'm a little leery of having people on the site give advice, except perhaps for very specific questions. Do you want to mention what your concept or plot line is about?
Perhaps if yo already have an idea you should just try writing it and see how it goes. Often that will give you the momentum to continue.
I think she's been underrated as an actor, or at least she has been recently. I suspect she may have backed away from the pressures of stardom to deal with the other parts of her life. Has anybody seen her in Queen America yet?
I've experimented with a comedy version screenplay of The Haunting (a kind of drawing room comedy if you could picture that) and I will try a prose version which I will post - I hope - on another site. But I could imagine only Catherine playing Theodora - even in my mind's eye in the prose version. I gave her character more depth which I think she could have handled perfectly.
Thanks for the information!
Is it possible in the author's note area to link to another story? I have a new story that will be a prequel to another one, and I'd like to mention that.
There are other sites that allow HTML coding in stories and BBcodes in the bulletin board posts. I've tried those with a test document here (not submitted) and they do not appear to work.
There's an Anaïs Nin story in Little Birds; I forgot the title. Anyway, there are two sisters who go on dates in the family car - I think they double-date, in fact, or at least sometimes they do. Both of them have cut slits in their underpants so boys can easily lick them. (It's in the late 1930s or about then.)
I did wonder: why not just take your panties off? Also, I guess they did their own laundry or their mother would have noticed the alterations. But anyway, that little detail struck me as incredibly erotic.
Thank you; sorry it took me a while to get back to this. Your information was very helpful.
I'm a little confused about saving stories as a draft - it seems to work a bit differently from another site I post on.
The story seems to be listed as "submitted." I assume however that the file is not going to be reviewed by a moderator at that stage.
The other site has a clearer demarcation between draft and submission status.
Thank you.
